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No. 411,812. Patented 001,. 1, 1888.

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M. E. HUN Tg GULTIVATOR.

No. 411,812; L Patented oct. 1, 1889.

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MARSHELL E. HUNT, OF DAVENPORT, lOl/VA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO HIRAM P. GOODVIN AND ADAM M. DEDRIOK, BOTH OF SAME PLACE.

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SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 411,812, dated October 1, 1889.

Application iiletl February 7, 1889. Serial No.299,082. (No model.)

To @ZZ zuil/m it may concern: moved. Fig. S is a side view of the right- Be it known that l, MARSHELL E. HUNT, a hand side sleeve. Fig. 9 is a rear view of the citizen of the United States, residing at Daright-hand side sleeve. Fig. is an outside venport, in the county of Scott and State of view of the right-hand side beam, the pend- 55 5 Iowa, have invented a new and useful Culent cultivating implement being removed, tiva-tor and Seeder Attachment, of which the an'd showing the position of the sleeve in following is a specification. cross-opening through said beam; and Figs. My invention relates to a class of machines 11, 12, 13, 14, and l5 are detail views of the more particularly` intended for planting seeds mechanism for attaching the pendent culti- 6o Io for garden vegetables and cotton and the culvating implement to the front end of the tivation of the same and to be operated by beam. manual power; but, however, I do not limit Similar figures refer to similar parts myself in the operation of my machine t0 throughout the several views. such class ot seeds in planting or cultivating, 1S is an axle having vertical parts 19, and 65 I5 nor to such power for operating the machine. 2O are wheels supporting the extreme ends The objects of my invention are, lirst, to of such axle. Two beams 21 are grooved attach the implements intended to cultivate crosswise on their under side, as at 22, havthe plants forward of the axle; second, to ing concaved plates 23 secured to the under have one of the beams rotate on the axle side of the beams by the bolts and nuts 24, 7o zo while the other rotates with the axle, so that so as to leave the cross opening or aperture said beams may be lifted or depressed inde- 25. Sleeves 2G are loosely litted upon the pendently of each other, and, third, to proaxle 18 between its vertical parts 19 and the vide engaging-surfaces on the inner side of inner side of the hub of each wheel, each of one of the wheels to engage at fixed distances said sleeves being provided with vertical 75 2 5 of rotation of said wheel with mechanism atstandards 27. Plates 2S, provided with retached to a seeder when carried upon the cesses to fit partially around the vertical porframe of said cultivator for the purpose of contion 19 of axle 18, are secured upon the tcp trolling the dropping of seed from the hopof standards 27 by the bolts and nuts 29. per of said seed'er into the seed-drill. Sleeves 26 are also provided with upward and 8o 30 The invention is shown in connection with descending pivots 30. Vertical apertures an ordinary two-wheeled cultivator having an through beams 21, where cross-grooved, as at arched axle and two beams with rearwardly- 22, register with similar apertures through extending handles, capable of lateral and concaved plates 23, which apertures accomvert-ical movement. Iattain these objects by modate the pivots 30 of sleeve 26, when such 85 t-he mechanism illustrated in the accompanysleeve is inserted through the opening 25. ing drawings, in which Handles 31 are attached to the rear end of Figure 1 is a plan view of the cultivator thebeams 21, and the front ends of said beams and seeder attached. Fig. 2 is a view of one are longitudinally slotted as at 32. of the spokes of the wheel with the inner en- Standards 33, carrying the hoes or cultivat- 9o gagging-surface attached, a section of the telly ingimplement 34, are inserted into the groove and hub being shown. Fig. 3 is a view of a '35 of the holder 36, such holder being provertical section of the seeder through its cenvided with a right--angled groove 37 and an ter. Fig. 4 is a top View of the seeder shown aperture 38, and its reverse face side having in Fig. 3, together with the bar en .ga-ging with the notches 39,which engage with the notches 95 the inner engaging-surface of the wheel. 40 on plate 41, which latter is also provided Fig. 5 is a plan view of the plates for reguwith an aperture 42, its reverse side also belating the supply of seed to the seed-drill. ing provided. with thehorizontal flanges 43, Fig. 6 is a vertical'view of the inner side of which flanges permit the beam 21 to beinthe machine, the seeder attachment being reserted between the same. The eyebolt 44 is roo moved. Fig. 7 is a view of the righthand inserted through the aperture 3S ot holder 36 side of the machine, the handles being reand the aperture 42 of plate 41, its eye 45 holding the standard 33 in position in said groove` 35, and its threaded en`d is passed through the horizontal slot 32 of beam 2l, Where it is secured in position. by the washer 46 and nut 47.

Vhen my machine is used solely as a cultivator, but one plate 28 is secured upon t-he top of standard 27, so that in moving the beam and its at-tached handle upward or downward of that side the recessed portion of said plate 28, which partially straddles or reaches aroundthe vertical part 19 of axle 18, causes said axle to rotate with it upon its bearings in the hubs of wheels 20. The other plate 28 being removed from the top of the other standard 27, the moving of the other beam and handle upward or downward causes the other sleeve 26 to rotate upon the axle,

thus permitting one beam to move vertically without vertical movement being imparted to the other beams. .It will be readily seen that other devices than the recessed part of plate 28 may be constructed to accomplish the same result, and which may be mechanical equivalen ts. Lateral independent movement of each of the beams 21 is afforded by the pivotal attachment through pivots 30 to the sleeve 26.

The seeder attachment consists of a rectangular box 48, supported by the band 49 on the plates 28 of the standards 27, andsecured in position by the bolts and nuts 29. The box 48 has a central opening in its bottom, as at 50, with inner pieces 5l arranged at angles to guide the seed placed in said box to said opening. A plate 52, with an orifice 53 therein, with a corresponding under plate 54, with a similar orifice, are hinged together. A bolt 55 passes upward through a suitable aperture in plate 54 and through the slot 56 in plate 52, the upper end of which bolt is screw-threaded to accommodate the nut 57. By sliding or swinging the under plate 54 the size of the orifice 53 may be diminished, and through nut 57 they may be held in such position. A vertical rod 58 hinges together the plates 52 and 54, the bottom of which rod passes through the bottom of box. 48. `The upper plate 52 is pivoted to said rod by the pivot 59, so` as to move therewith. The vertical rod 58 is bent horizontally at the top of =box 48 so as to form the horizontal bar 60,

which is also bent, as at 6l, to accommodate the vertical` part 19 of axle 18, and the extreme outer end is also bent downward, as at 62. A spiral spring 63 is connected at one end to said bar 61, the other end being connected to the top of the side of said box 48 in the rear of said bar. The plates52 and 54 are sol arranged in connection with said rod 58 that said spring in its normal or inactive position holds said plates over the opening 50 in the bottom of said box 48, so that the orifices 53 in said plates will not register with said openings 50 in said box, and when in such position seed in said box will not drop through such opening 50. k Upon one or more of the spokes 64 of the wheel 2O are placed projections 65, and upon the rotation of. said wheel in moving the machine forward such projections 65 come in contact with the part 62 of bar 60, forcing said bar and its attached plates 52 and 54 forward, so that the orifices 53 will register with the opening 50 and the seed in saidvbox drop through the same. After the wheel has sufficiently rotated, the projection 65 disengages with the part 62 of bar 60, and the tension of the spring 63 pulls the plates 52 and 54 and rod 58 and its bar 60 back, so as to cause the orice 53 not to register with said opening 50. Beneath the opening 50 is attached to said box a seed-drill 66,' through which the seed is conveyed to the earth. To the rod 58 are attached the curved pendent rods 67, 68, and 69, which move with said rod to stir the seeds in said box. I

I am aware that it is old in cultivators to extend the beams forward of the wheel-axle, connecting such beams forward of the axle by a yoke and attaching to such beams or yoke, forward of the axle, cultivating implements which may be raised and lowered and adjusted laterally; that it is also old to so at tach such beams,when connected bysuch yoke, to the axle, so that their forward ends may be moved up and down simultaneously with the axle., or rotated simultaneously on the axle by depressing and elevating rearwardlyextending handles from such beams, and that in such constructed machines simultaneous lateral motion in the same direction may be imparted to the beams by moving the frame on the wheel or wheels sidewise, using such wheel or wheels as a pivot in so doing.

From the description herein given the inode of operation of my machine may be readily understood.

Vhat I claim as new, and. desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. In a cultvator having an axle and wheels, the combination therewith of two beamscrossgrooved at the axle and with slotted forward extensions, the perforated concave plates 23, and sleeves 26, fitted upon the axle having vertical standards 27, and pivots 30, whereby each beam may have independent movement upon the axle, substantially as described.

2. The combinatiomwith the frame or axle, of the grooved and slotted beams, the plates 23, sleeves 26, with standards 27 and pivots 30, and the plates 28, recessed to embrace Aan arched axle,- whereby one beam may be made rigid with the axle while the other may rotate freely thereon, substantially as described.

3. The combinationof the axle and wheels,

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the beams having longitudinal .slots at their front ends for exchangeable cultivatingtools and with cross-slots at their rear ends, and the l handles vertically adjustable on the beams, substantially as shown and described.

MARSHELL E. HUNT. lVitnesses: g

GEORGE RglvlARvIN, FRED P; BEMls. 

